Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/92 of 20 January 2025 making imports of choline chloride originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration
Date: 2025-01-20
Institutions: Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security, European Commission
Subjects: China, anti-dumping measure, chemical salt, import (EU), organic chemical, originating product, surveillance concerning imports




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2025/92


21.1.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/92
of 20 January 2025
         
making imports of choline chloride originating in the People’s Republic of China subject to registration


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Union (1) (‘the basic Regulation’) and in particular Article 14(5) thereof,


After informing the Member States,

Whereas:







(1)


On 31 October 2024, the European Commission (‘the Commission’) announced, by a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union (2), the initiation of an anti-dumping proceeding with regard to imports into the Union of choline chloride originating in the People’s Republic of China.












(2)


This initiation followed a complaint lodged on 17 September 2024 by the Union industry on behalf of producers representing more than 25 % of the total Union production of choline chloride.





1.   PRODUCT SUBJECT TO REGISTRATION







(3)


The product subject to registration (‘the product concerned’) is choline chloride (‘CC’), in all forms and purities, whether or not on a carrier, with a minimum choline chloride content of 30 % by weight, excluding calcium phosphoryl choline chloride tetrahydrate with CAS number 72556-74-2, currently classified under CN codes ex 2923 10 00 , ex 2309 90 31 , ex 2309 90 96 , ex 2106  and 3824 99 96  (TARIC additional code 89ID) and originating in the People’s Republic of China.




2.   REGISTRATION







(4)


Under Article 14(5) of the basic Regulation, imports of the product concerned may be made subject to registration for the purpose of ensuring that, if the investigation results in findings leading to the imposition of anti-dumping duties, those duties can, if the necessary conditions are fulfilled, be levied retroactively on the registered imports in accordance with the applicable legal provisions.










(5)


The Commission has decided to make imports of the product concerned subject to registration on its own initative under Article 14(5) of the basic Regulation. The conditions for retroactive collection of duties will be assessed in the regulation imposing definitive duties, if any.










(6)


Any future liability would emanate from the findings of the anti-dumping investigation.










(7)


The calculations provided in the complaint requesting the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation estimate dumping margins between 26 % and 121 % and an injury elimination level between 85 % and 86 % for the product concerned for the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. The amount of possible future liability would normally be set at the lower of those two levels according to Article 7(2) of the basic Regulation.










(8)


However, at this stage the Commission is not in a position to estimate the amount of possible future liability. Thus, the amounts mentioned in the complaint are only for information purposes and cannot create any expectations as to the actual level of liability which will be established as a result of the investigation.




3.   PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA







(9)


Any personal data collected in the context of this registration will be treated in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data,




HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1

1.   The customs authorities are hereby directed, under Article 14(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036, to take the appropriate steps to register imports into the Union of choline chloride, in all forms and purities, whether or not on a carrier, with a minimum choline chloride content of 30 % by weight, excluding calcium phosphoryl choline chloride tetrahydrate with CAS number 72556-74-2, currently classified under CN codes ex 2923 10 00 , ex 2309 90 31 , ex 2309 90 96 , ex 2106  and 3824 99 96  (TARIC additional code 89ID) and originating in the People’s Republic of China.


2.   Registration shall expire nine months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation.



Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 January 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 176, 30.6.2016, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1036/oj.

(2)  
            OJ C, C/2024/6602, 31.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6602/oj.

(3)  Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1725/oj).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/92/oj
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